Joins World’s Oldest and Largest Vertical Transportation Firm with Nearly 20 Years of Industry Experience

Lerch Bates, an employee-owned international consulting firm for vertical transportation, façade access and logistics, announced Maquel Houlihan has been named consultant, elevator consulting group, in its Las Vegas, Nevada, office. She joins the elevator consulting firm with more than 18 years of local experience in the vertical transportation industry.

Houlihan will provide elevator consulting services for new equipment design, modernization design and work, maintenance audit work and due diligence studies and services in her new role with Lerch Bates. She also will be responsible for vertical transportation studies, construction services and vertical transportation maintenance
evaluations.

“Lerch Bates continues to expand in the Las Vegas metropolitan area as large construction projects are routinely announced and break ground,” said Lerch Bates President and CEO Bart Stephan. “Maquel has exceptional knowledge of the prosperous yet unpredictable vertical transportation industry in southern Nevada and her extraordinary professionalism and meticulousness will be tremendous assets to our firm. Her experience with estimating elevator maintenance agreements, repairs and modernizations will complement our outstanding local team. I’m very pleased to welcome Maquel Houlihan to Lerch Bates”

Houlihan’s career in the vertical transportation industry began 18 years ago when she held various sales positions with Otis Elevator. During her tenure with the company, she consistently ranked as a top salesperson in the firm’s Western Region and earned numerous accolades and awards. She most recently served as an existing installation sales representative for Schindler Elevator Corporation, overseeing some of the largest properties in Las Vegas including Caesars Entertainment (Bally’s, Caesars Palace, Cromwell, Flamingo, Harrah’s Las Vegas, Harrah’s Laughlin, The Linq, Paris, Planet Hollywood and Rio), World Market Center and several Howard Hughes properties. She holds an Associate of Science degree in business management and health science.

Denver-area based Lerch Bates has built a reputation as the premier designer of vertical transportation and façade access, permanent equipment and rigs utilized for servicing exterior façades including window washing and maintenance, systems around the globe. The company has consulted on many of the world’s tallest buildings including the 2,717-foot (428-meter) Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1,667-foot (508-meter) Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, 1,476-foot (450-meter) Nanjing Greenland Financial Center in Nanjing, China and 1,389-foot (423-meter) Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, Illinois.

Lerch Bates Inc.

Lerch Bates is a global consulting firm that understands the way people interact with buildings and how all of a building’s systems come together to enhance its overall use and effectiveness. We use this insight to advise on all facets of vertical and horizontal transportation, materials management and handling and facade access.